The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-04-25
BRIEF JoTrlNcs.

There were ffty-four arrests last week.
thirty-iive of them being for drunkenness
The Y. w. G. t. U. will meet with Mrs.
osgood, III Oxford street, corner of Myrtle,
this afternoon at 2.3O o'clock.
Longfellow Chautauqua Circle meets this
evening with Mrs. Frank B. Clark, No.
Grant street
Arrangements are now in progress looking
to the introduction of the pipes of the Port
land Water Company. in Cape Elizabeth.
A. M. Smith q Co. received telegram
from New York Saturday, announcing the
arrival of the first cargo of maekerel Of the
season.
The Glen House will be open to the pub
lie June 2Sth. Workmen are now busily en-
gagged putting an addition of twenty rooms
on this popular mountain house.
The Portland & Rochester railroad COM
pany has notified the Hersey heirs that the
buildings on the land claimed by that COM
pany at Woodford S must be removed
Herbert Gould, boy employed In Stephen
Berry's printing Office, caught his hand in
the engine Saturday forenoon and received
a painful injury.
Deake's Wharf early yesterday morning, bnt
was discovered and rescued by officer Eaton
and some employees of the Grand Trunk
Railway who were near by.
A rare specimen of the lobster family is on
exhibition at Skillings & Co.'s establishment
on Burnham's Wharf 1t is pure white. and
is the only one ever seen. here, so the lobster
men say.
A handsome setter dog was run over by a
carriage in front of City Hall yesterday and
one Of its legs was broken. The dog was
taken into carriage and driven away to
have its wound attended to.
The eleven o'clock train from Saccarappa
on the Portland g. Rochester Railroad broke
apart after leaving Cumberland Mills Satur-
day forenoon and the engine and forward
part of the train reached the next station be-
fore the loss Of the last car was discovered.
Kendall & Whitney contemplate the cree
ton of a brick block on the corner of Tenn
pie and Federal streets, for the accommoda-
ton of their business. The lot is now occu-
pied by the one stored wooden buildings
next to the Advertiser office.
The schooner Yankee Maid which was run
into by the steamer Josephine Hoey, has
been repaired by G. G. Hagan. The damage
is only about $75. The Ferry company has
run its boat sixeeen years and this is the
first accident
The Maine Historical Society will tender
dinner at the Falmouth Hotel, this city, to
Hon. j. w. Bradbury on his SD birthday.
which occurs in June. There will be inter-
esting post-prandial exercises az which Mr..
Bradbury viii be one of the speakers
Mr.. 0. B. Written, of the firm of Lewis,
Chase e. Written, said yesterday that while
he had not received any news other than
that telegraphed to the papers in regard to
the firing by a Canadian cruiser at the
schooner Hattie Maud, he regarded the re-
port as more than probable.
Mr.. M. f. Davis, the oarsman, has COM
pleted a new shell to be sent to Germany.
A new boat for Hanlan is nearing compile
ton, and the double shell for Hosmer and
Mckay, and the four Dared boats for Bow
dom College are well along. Mr.. Davis has
an order for four shells for the. Vest End
boat club Of New Orleans
At The Is Show held in Newark, n. j.,
last tuesday, Mr.. f. r. Harris lemon and
white pointer Bowdoin won I'd prize in the
dog class under 50 pounds. This is the same
pointer that took second at the Boston ex.
hibition the first of the month. Mr.. Harris
Sachem took first in the large class.
The total value of exports for last week
was $97, 1T, the chief articles being 1851
bushels of wheat, 25,704 bushels of peas,
1887 bags of -four, and 407 barrels of apples
The chief imports were 235 hogsheads and
40 tierces of molasses. 1859 tons of coal and
5000 boxes of tin plate.
A committee from the city government of
Newton. Mass, has been in the city during
the last week inspecting the electric light
system here. The members were highly
pleased with its workings and will probably
recommend the adoption of a similar plan in
their own city.
The fourth in the series of mothers meet
ings, under the auspices of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, was held in
the vestry of the Free street church Satur
day afternoon. The subject under discussion
was "a Mothers Duty to her Boys" The
meeting was presided over by Mrs. George
S. Hunt, and there was an interesting dis
cuSSion.